Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — Shoot $13,000 a Minute. [ARTICLE]

Shoot $13,000 a Minute.

The report comes from England that in one battle an average of 1,000 shells a minute was fired every minute for more than two days.

In this country our greatest cannonading was at Gettysburg, when the average was not even 100 shots a minute for less than two hours. I do not know what the cost of those shells was that the English report deals with, but I do. know that an American company is making 5,000,000 shells at an average price of sl3. .

That is a very low average, but even so, shooting away $13,000 a minute burns a considerable hole into the pocket of Mr, European Taxpayer.

If Mr. Rockefeller really has an income of $50,000,000 a year, which ,they say he has, that would be about SIOO a minute. Hence it would take 130 Rockefellers to foot that ammunition bill for those wasteful belligerents.

That old joke that the English are willing to continue this war until the list Frenchman and Russian is killed needs revision to read thus: All combatants may continue while the folks at home can furnish a dollar to buy shot and powder.—Philadelphia Ledger.